[plug] Dial on Demand question

[Chris Griffin]

Steve,

It took two evenings and a lot of head scratching, but I got there. It is 
now doing the dial on demand like a pro.
Many, many thanks for your help Steve.

Anyone like to give some hints of setting up a second ppp interface to 
receive calls?


At 10:44 15/03/2000 +0800, you wrote:

>>So far I have only been using the gui interface to pppd under KDE. This 
>>makes no mention of the 'demand' and 'defaultroute' options. I have also 
>>been looking under the bonnet to find these scripts and get into them. 
>>There  seems to be at least two areas that contain such files: /etc/ppp 
>>and /sysconfig/network-scripts.
>>I have been looking at the doco and so far have not had much success.
>>Any chance of a little more info on the scripts you are using, where the 
>>should be located and how/when to activate them?
>
>I use linuxconf (in Networking, Client Tasks, PPP) for general config of 
>PPP (ppp0 in my case) then refine it in the scripts. Make sure Set default 
>route (in Customize under ppp0 config) is toggled on.
>
>demand (which implies persist), nopersist, holdoff, idle etc can be 
>specified in the /etc/ppp/options file in RH6.1 (see man pppd for 
>explanations of the options). One options suite which works for me is:
>
>lock
>demand
>idle 600
>holdoff 600
>nopersist
>
>You've no doubt found chat-ppp in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
>
>I choose to kick off /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-ppp ifcfg-ppp0 
>from /etc/rc.d/rc.local to bring the interface up at boot time for a 
>dial-on-demand machine. (I also bring up IP masquerading at this time, but 
>that's another issue).
>
>Hope this moves you one step closer.
>Steve

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